Authorities in the Tajik capital Dushanbe had not resolved the city\'s problem of unclean drinking water by 25 July. The city\'s water supply was polluted with mud and sand as a result of landslides caused by heavy rains two weeks earlier. Dushanbe officials warned residents that they would have to get drinking water from water and fire trucks at least until 10 August. Representatives of the UN Development Program and other international organizations working in Dushanbe warned city officials that despite clean-up efforts undertaken since the mudslides, the city\'s water remains unfit to drink. Dushanbe\'s water-supply system is generally agreed to be in desperate need of an upgrade. No major work on the system has been done since 1990, before the country\'s independence. (Deutsche Welle)